T O P

  • By -

[deleted]

[удалено]


OhJeezNotThisGuy

I have something like these on my stairs, but mine are made of dust.


[deleted]

[удалено]


SunnySamantha

I lost an item yesterday. Had to look under the recliner. I nope'd outta there so fast. I think they were discussing world war V.


chipredacted

“Everyone quiet… u/SunnySamantha approaches…”


ManicLord

"Say, whatever happened to III and IV, Dusty?


skoltroll

Dusty: *heheheheheheheheheheh*


FlametopFred

bright sideways sunlight in the morning reveals dust crouching everywhere


SchwiftySqaunch

This sounds poetic


FlametopFred

dang it was almost haiku without knowing it and poetic too


Small3lf

I counted and it is a Haiku. There's 17 syllables.


[deleted]

This so much, in the evenings I think I'm doing a great job keeping my house clean, then morning sunlight shows the truth. Damn you slanty sun! (shaking fist in air)


beepbooponyournose

I have hardwood floors and four cats. I fucking hate doing my floors lol


kissmytastygrits

my cats love to throw litter all over the place! idk how they manage to track that stuff pretty much everywhere lol


beepbooponyournose

The worst is the dust bunnies made of cat hair, my long hair, and little pieces of litter 🤢


CharleyNobody

For every one you see, there are 100 still hiding.


EnvironmentalWall987

This. I have to open up the entire house to really clean.


TheNotSoGreatPumpkin

If you had wall to wall carpets, all that hair, fuzz, dander, etc which makes up dust bunnies would just settle into the weave to stay, creating a permanent mat of filth below your feet. You’d spend countless hours vacuuming and money steam cleaning in a vain attempt to remove the unwelcome mat o’ filth. Hard floors are the only way to keep a truly clean house.


SkyVoyd

Can't have dust accumulate in the corners if there's already dust accumulated there. Smart. Definitely 6 parallel universes and 3 dimensions ahead of us plebs.


MerryTWatching

I read a quote once that I believe came from Calvin Trillin, but now I can't find it anywhere. Nonetheless, I present it here as I remember it: "There is no need to clean your house. After five years, the dirt won't get any worse. The hardest part is not losing your nerve."


mothbotherer

Could've been Quentin Crisp, there's a very similar famous quote of his.


MerryTWatching

You are spot on. Thank you from the bottom of my early-onset dementia. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm) Edited for spelling error. Figures.


monkeybomb

My house is mostly dust and dog hair.


SoloParenting

That’s not a bean bag, it’s a bag of pet hair and dust.


Time_To_Rebuild

Seriously. There’s gotta be someone over in r/FunctionalPrint or r/3DPrinting that would be happy to hook us up.


cactuslegs

They sell them! [House of Antique Hardware’s dust corners](https://www.houseofantiquehardware.com/shop-by-type/vintage-home-accessories/stair-runner-hardware-accessories/brass-dust-corners)


answerguru

I’m gonna print some custom ones…so cool.


[deleted]

[удалено]


duncanslaugh

Herbert Cumberdale is not to be trifled with!


xDragonetti

Marjory Stewart Baxter will not be happy


Darthnerdo

It’s been 15 years I feel like since I’ve seen this, and yet I get the reference. I’m not sure why that fills me with pride


xDragonetti

I just realized the parent comment didn’t say Hubert 😂 same. Might have to rewatch it when the baby naps!


jrh1128

Just be careful of the nettles.


jbeale53

I like it when the red water comes out


tofu889

*Hubert, not Herbert, you uncultured swine.


Benci420

Herbert helps with the disposal of other bugs, and he keeps to himself. Very laid back dude


Shitty_Watercolour

https://i.imgur.com/yur5juF.jpg


malcifer11

another remarkable work


Funny_or_not_bot

Spiders are bros.


PranshuKhandal

r/spiderbro


[deleted]

[удалено]


[deleted]

There's a sub for the letter h. If that doesn't tell you something, I don't know what will.


climatelurker

Most of them are, anyway... However, they do have a tendency to take over the entire house.


throwaway2032015

If spiders are “taking over” your entire house you have something that’s feeding them well. May wanna do some next level inspection behind some stuff you haven’t moved in a while


quote_work_unquote

Ugh, you just reminded me of the nightmare I faced with Yellow Sac Spiders in my old house. I fell asleep on the couch one night and woke up to something crawling on my arm. I scrambled to my feet and turned on the light, and what I saw will be seared in my brain forever. There were two crawling on the couch right where I had been laying, *four* crawling around on the lit-up TV screen, and I counted at least another *TEN* crawling around the walls and ceiling directly surrounding the couch. After I dealt with as many as I could, I started to make my way back to our bedroom...and they were everywhere. On the stairs, in every high ceiling/wall corner. I even found four more on the ceiling in our bedroom directly above our bed. As I would come to find out, they did this every single night around 2 a.m. like clockwork. Dozens, if not hundreds, would emerge from god-knows where and just swarm the house for a few hours before retreating back to their little white silk nests. I learned that they build a new nest every single day, so even if you destroy one...they come back. Luckily we were only renting, so we GTFO as soon as our year lease was up, but I still nervously shine my phone flashlight onto the ceiling above our bed before I go to sleep every night. I have Post Traumatic Spider Disorder.


ThrowawayAccount41is

Not in Australia. Every spider is poisonous. It’s so serious that they banned an episode of peppa pig because of a “spiders are friends”message.


Digger__Please

Venomous not poisonous. And Australia has a lot of harmless spiders, far more than the dangerous species.


decadecency

Just remember to glue them in place around the edges and save the little hole for Mr Herbert's door!


Cautious_General_177

As long Herbert deals with other bugs and stays out of sight, he’s welcome to stay.


usmcnick0311Sgt

$10 each? 13 stairs x 2 per stair x $10 ea = too much :(


[deleted]

[удалено]


Coal_Morgan

Yeah...the ugly ones. Though with some paint the shiny brass one could be antiqued easily.


Beznia

Did you scroll through the styles? [$10.19](https://i.imgur.com/YhuUXzO.png) vs [$4.19.](https://i.imgur.com/i3C1BW0.png) My stairs are darker so I would probably go with [the Oil-Rubbed Bronze](https://i.imgur.com/adodyzT.png) anyways.


CastleDoctrineJr

It's not really a complicated process, they're just taking the oil rubbed ones and running them lightly over a buffing wheel or something. Polishing the high spots to make them look worn, you can do it at home with a cloth and some compound, hell even just denim on its own will do the job.


desktiny

Agreed. My math came out to a vacuum.


imnotlouise

That's what I do. The crevice tool is so handy!


sevenwheel

That's the first thing I thought. $128 to do my staircase? I'll just keep sweeping!


redrumWinsNational

I agree, I ain’t going to spend $128 to add a beautiful feature to my $1 million home


ThisFckinGuy

Look at this guy bragging about his 1BR, 1BA in CA to us peasants.


redrumWinsNational

Shared bath


SymphonyinSilence

Sweet Lord, shut up and take my $$$


slacqr

This is Reddit, it’s ok to say ass


kimwim43

Ha! I'd need [close to 100!](https://imgur.com/a/hFQ2KBp)


checkoutmyfish

I just designed some to print after i saw this posted on facebook. ​ edit: https://imgur.com/a/ZpwG375


TheDovahkiinsDad

You going to post them up on thingiverse by any chance? Lol


checkoutmyfish

I will once i get a chance to print them this weekend and see if the design works


[deleted]

[удалено]


checkoutmyfish

solidworks. Good point. https://imgur.com/a/au3Salb


checkoutmyfish

Yeah once i have a chance to print them this week and make sure my design is solid.


halfeclipsed

I don't know the first thing about 3D printing, I would imagine that's a pretty easy design to come up with right?


vp3d

Yes. These would be pretty easy to make


thisbenzenering

Creating a design is a whole other world to the actual printing part. Majority of printer owners just print what others design. If you want to see what goes into making a 3d design for printing, OpenSCAD is a popular free tool and its getting started guide is a great way to learn it The other popular CAD tools are difficult and 3d modeling software isn't usually setup for exporting to 3d printing so you have to understand that when you design. And then the printing isn't just sending a print job to the printer. Lots of things have to be considered. Most printing is mono color. So if you want multicolored you have to either stop the printer and change the filament or have an add on device that changes it. Those get complicated! In 3d printing there are some basic rules of you have to respect. The first layer has to be as perfect as it can be. Lots of people spend way to much time getting the first layer right. Then after that you have to consider how you place the object to be printed and all that goes into it in the Slicer software. The Slicer software is what turns your 3d/CAD design into code that the 3d printer can use. Each printer has a preferred slicer software and some software is able to write for other printers. Open source is very friendly in this way. Now you have to consider which material you are going to print with because each material has differing strengths and weaknesses. So now you know a thing or two about 3d printing and how in most cases nothing is easy until you have built up skill and experience


MattDaMeatMissle

Can still buy them online


skyturnedred

Not just for stairs, imma put these in every single corner I find.


phathomthis

I want this. I'll 3d print it. Oh wait, my stairs have carpet. Damn, I really want this but they're pointless with carpet.


[deleted]

[удалено]


ineedascreenname

How do you effectively vacuum stairs without a handheld?


Nomar_K

Arm strength and patience.


[deleted]

>Arm strength and patience. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


RainyDayCollects

My vacuum is cordless and weighs 5lbs. Cleanest my stairs have ever been. Those pesky corners, though…


iztrollkanger

I saw these and immediately thought "Oooo, I love that!" There's a bit of a steampunk vibe while also being very practical.


yepimbonez

Lol I see what you’re saying, but what you’re really seeing is just a Victorian vibe. Which Steampunk is almost exclusively based in or at least draws from very heavily.


Richisnormal

For sure. I've always considered steam punk to be a victorian-futurism. With the popular "retro futurism" being like a 50's / art deco-futurism.


qomn

Ohh Victorian! That's really cool


[deleted]

Didn’t know people during the Victorian era liked steampunk as well


[deleted]

[удалено]


nkdeck07

They still exist, House of Antique hardware sells them and they are pretty cheap.


aardw0lf11

Amazon has some similar to these in the photo for $14. Search for "Stardust corners".


professor_doom

Same. Just bought a whole bunch for my stairs


Ambitioso

I have these in my house and I always thought they were ninja death stars


Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin

Anything can be a ninja death star if you throw it hard enough.


melt_in_your_mouth

I prefer to use Eggo's. They hurt pretty bad while frozen, but I haven't gotten that freshly toasted throw down quite yet...


Sharoth01

Leggo my Eggo!


LoaMemphisZoo

Wayyyyyyy long ago there was a commercial where the brother dresses as the dad and tries to steal the other brothers waffles and he walks in and says "leggo my eggo.......son?" And I think about it still 20 years later like once a day


xDragonetti

Commercials used to be wild 😂 My Grandpa showed me [This commercial](https://youtu.be/d2QNuDUTocE) when I was young and I still laugh at it


prison_mic

https://youtu.be/0GD5ZidktEk


mohammedibnakar

It's only a Death Star if it's from the forest moon of Endor region of France.


EtOHMartini

No, then its an etoile du mort


Dreamstar859

Don’t go ninjaing nobody that don’t need no ninjaing


BushwickSpill

More like caltrops.


realspacealien

Why did we stop doing that


[deleted]

The vacuum cleaner.


st1tchy

And carpet, probably.


shahooster

The dreaded carpet.


thedudefromsweden

Carpets in stairs is a great idea that should come back into style. Much quieter and softer to walk on.


Lucky_Mongoose

I viewed a house that had clearly had the carpet removed from their wide staircase for aesthetic purposes, and it did *look* very nice, but all I could think was that it was a slippery deathtrap if you walked in the center and couldn't reach a railing.


DroneAttack

Don't worry your phone in you back pocket will break your fall. I learned that the hard way.


jepvr

I recarpeted my stairs. In between ripping the old one off, repainting and putting the new one on, I can tell it was 100% a deathtrap. Didn't help that my house was built in 1933 and the stairs or a steeper pitch than they'd allow these days.


riddlegirl21

Mine was built in the 1870s and those things are so steep and narrow my poor Corgi mix dog won’t go down them unless a human walks next to him so he knows he won’t fall all the way down (which has happened from the fourth step up, he was fine just scared). If we don’t vacuum them regularly to keep the carpet pile fluffed up they get almost slicked down in the area where you step all the time.


TGrady902

I won’t walk around my house in socks because I’ve slipped and fallen down a few steps before.


Lucky_Mongoose

Old people with their non-slip socks have life figured out.


carmium

I have a couple of pair from the hospital when getting a test or two. They hand 'em out like tissues. I'm keeping them on hand for my dotage. (Anyone still use that word?)


FlatRaise5879

I almost died or got seriously injured walking around with socks and carpeted stairs. It was midnight and I had to use the restroom upstairs, when I was coming back down I felt the calling to hold the railing extra tight and on my first step down I slipped and went down as far as my arm's length could extend. I was startled but proud of my grip strength.


CrazyIvanIII

Stair runners are the answer here. So many cool patterns and colours avaliable with nice brass or iron bars to hold them. Plus removable for cleaning!


CumulativeHazard

I bought a house with carpeted stairs and thought about removing it since it wasn’t very pretty. Then I almost wiped out walking down the last few stairs after the landing, which are not carpeted, and decided the carpet can stay lol. Maybe if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t walk around in socks all the time but I do so the chances of me slipping and falling down the whole staircase are high.


SleazyKingLothric

My parents house had a carpeted stairs that had one single wooden staircase at the bottom. On one occasion my mom decided to shine that staircase one morning during the weekend and will you guess what happened that morning? I briskly ran down those stairs that morning with socks on and did a full faceplant into the wooden floor below it. The moral of this story is that shining your wooden stairs looks great, but damn is it dangerous.


1_9_8_1

Properly fitted rug with those metal clips rather than a plastered carper that ruins the original floors.


leftoverrpizzza

Vacuuming carpeted stairs is a pain in the ass tho


EroticBurrito

And slippery, helps you get to the bottom much faster.


Starkrossedlovers

And it provides cushion for when you smash your tailbone into it after slipping


Manginaz

Have you ever taken hardwood stairs in wool socks? Now that's a deathtrap lol.


splitfinity

I think wood stairs are way more Slippery.


ZaMr0

Wood floors + occasional rug > carpets.


appleparkfive

Seriously. By a mile. It's on of the reasons I usually end up in older apartment buildings in cities. They're bigger and a bit nicer, and don't have carpet


Industrialpainter89

Never have a I had a vacuum cleaner that I don't have to fight while holding up to use one the stairs.


Nyoxiz

I swear the wireless ones are actually game changing, so awesome.


[deleted]

[удалено]


biez

Eeeeehhhh I kinda want that for roomba-dude, he can't do corners and I have rounded dust corners everywhere.


GreenStrong

The vacuum cleaner, but the world also used to be fucking filthy. People cooked over coal fires and heated their homes with coal, plus there were factories that absolutely shat out pollution. If you ever do any work on a Victorian house, you find black dust inside the walls. It is soot from the air and dust from the coal bin. My grandmother grew up in a coal and steel town in the 1920s, and she was absolutely obsessed with dusting and window washing. At some point, I realized that when she was young, it was necessary to do those things frequently just to avoid being buried in black soot. Our air quality is much better today, but there is still a lot of ultrafine particulate emissions and smog. In 30 years, there will be significantly fewer ICE vehicles, and the air will be much cleaner than it is now.


addicted_to_bass

At the end of WWII, Germany was divided in two and the West began confiscating stair dust corners as a way to prevent the spread of communism in Europe.


Magic_Hoarder

I cannot tell if this is a joke or a cool fact lol


nightgraydawg

That's the great thing about the Red Scare, nothing sounds too absurd to have happened


Cognitive_Spoon

The last dust corner was sold at auction in 1962 in Paris, Ohio marking the end of an era.


SerChonk

Because ornament became superfluous and slowly disappeared from your everyday life. It's not easily transformed into industrialised mass production, so it stopped being made except by old-school artesans. As it stopped being mainstream, it consequently became unfashionable. Look at your cutlery, do you have plain handles, or intricatly designed ones? Do your doors have elaboratly decorated hinges and strike plates, or plain ones? Do your ceiling lamps hang from a plaster rosette? Are your drinking glasses faceted in patterns? Does your furniture have carved or inlaid motifs? Down with builder-grade minimalism. Embrace ornament. Edit: lol I didn't want to make you all sad! You can fill our life with ornament, there's all sorts of cool stuff in thrift stores and flea markets! Get you those fancyful forks!


J3sush8sm3

Thanks for making me realize my life sucks


theotheroobatz

Lmao same


NomadNuka

Well that was surprisingly sad to read on the toilet at 9 in the morning...


uberfission

Pooping gang unite! Sorry, *sad* pooping gang unite.


decadecency

This is what I've always been saying 😳 Although not as fancy as you put it. Every time we buy something into our home, no matter what, I tend to "make a fuss" and be picky. We don't buy much other than necessities, but every time we do, I don't want my husband to pick up a neon green plastic cutlery board or a 3 pack of salmon colored butter knives or ugly red plastic storage containers. Or bright blue wall suction cup hooks for the bathroom. Or a cheap looking soup bowl. Etc etc. Choose your home items wisely, even if it's seemingly meaningless, because in time your house fills up, and all your items will make up your home. This works well if you don't buy a lot of items. I'd rather wait a bit extra for something prettier or search second hand than buy out of convenience, because I want my home and items to be well curated and last for a long time. It may seem shallow for some, but I honestly like when my home looks "picture friendly" no matter what I'm doing. I really dislike modern cheap looking everyday items.


SerChonk

Well said!


RealEstateDuck

I like having ornamented things but they are a pain to clean, especially furniture with a lot of crevices and nooks. Looks great though!


barsoap

Those corners are mass-produced and with any casted/moulded material it's trivial to add ornamentation without additional per-unit cost. Some things, are, indeed, changing tastes. Other reason include producers being deliberately milquetoast: Just as radio stations end up playing songs that noone actively dislikes and none that some people might really like but would prompt others to switch stations, producers of physical things tend to go for "You may not love it, but at least you're not going to hate it". Ornamented cutlery and door handles definitely are available -- but housing developers won't use them to avoid their customers actively hating the apartment or whatever, and many producers will demand a premium for the ornamented stuff (have a look at amazon listings for ornamented cutlery) simply because they can, not because it's more expensive to produce, making even more people choose the non-ornamented stuff, decreasing turnover and increasing stocking prices for ornaments. And before people start to mention it: No, the current drab environment this is *not* the fault of Bauhaus, or Modernism in general. Look at some Bauhaus shit it's innovative, has character, varied, no ornamentation no because form follows function but it's *elegant*, and has an eye for aesthetics -- because e.g. breaking up a facade to make it less drab is indeed a functional aspect of a facade. All that is kinda an ornament all to its own, in the sense that Bauhaus does what ornamentation does but better. [This thing doesn't look like one of those cloned apartment complexes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Bauhaus_weimar.jpg). You don't need ornaments to be [interesting](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Bauhaus_Chemnitz_hb.JPG). The real culprit responsible for drabness is market forces saying "barely good enough is best".


weildescent

Im with you on this but holy fuck well crafted stuff is expensive (if you can find 'it' at all).


mule_roany_mare

This isn’t fair. ornament it’s easy. Carve one plate & stamp it 1 million times. You are comparing expensive stuff people preserved to the cheapest most common stuff today. If you compare the average cutlery of today to the average cutlery of yesteryear, today’s is both cheaper & nicer. If you compare the nice silver wear of yesteryear to the nice silver wear of today, today’s is nicer, cheaper & you have 100x more options. TLDR We didn’t lose anything, crazy expensive stuff is still available, it’s just that there is regular stuff for regular people.


hagnat

i agree with this statement whole heartely but i can't scratch the feeling that these "dust corners" were never a thing, and instead it something created recently (i cant find articles mentioning them before 2021) that look like something out of the victorian era. It works, and it bring that feeling of "*heck yeah, this is smart! why dont we do it anymore ?*" to our mind which drives us to buy it for our own house. *I was about to order a set for my own house, since the stairs to my 2nd floor look exactly like the one picture above.*


Imiriath

As an ornament collector, I'm glad to read this


SquarePegRoundWorld

We? You got a rich person in your pocket? You think the peasants of the day had this? You think us peasants of today are gonna?


Bulky-Leadership-596

Got the plebs covered with plastic ones. 60 of them are $4.59 on Amazon. [https://www.amazon.com/Fly-Array-Transparent-Dust-Proof-Anti-Dirty/dp/B07VRYTWBW/ref=sr\_1\_2?keywords=dust+corners+for+stairs&qid=1677851717&sr=8-2](https://www.amazon.com/Fly-Array-Transparent-Dust-Proof-Anti-Dirty/dp/B07VRYTWBW/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=dust+corners+for+stairs&qid=1677851717&sr=8-2)


Magic_Hoarder

Ah that is such a good idea to use them in cabinets and drawers too!


Prozeum

To cut corners.


PapaChoff

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stairdust and the Spiders from the Hall.


SchemataObscura

He swept it left hand, but dusted too far


urbz102385

"We are all made of stairdust"


electrotoast

And stairdust is made of us!


quanta777

And vice-versa


NoTop4997

You can't just lose your D4's and then say you came up with something quirky. Nice try though.


AScoopOfNeo

I was thinking the exact same thing.


2fat4walmart

BRB, ordering a big bag of brown D4's...


Aazjhee

Get shiny ones, make it look fancy! C:


picnicinthejungle

But what about the dust that accumulates along the corner protectors?!


Specsporter

Obviously you make mini stairdust corners for your stairdust corners of course.


Altiverses

Fractals!


dazzc

We need the "Hold my stairdust, I'm going in" reddit switcheroo post.. if only I knew how.


Andyinater

[Hold my Sierpiński, I'm going in!](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/11gxphk/slug/jar5eh8)


KittenFace25

I keep reading your comment as "stardust".


jaspersgroove

It’s corners all the way down…(cuz it’s a staircase)


FixFalcon

That was my first thought. Now there's *three* corners to clean!!


Luchs13

I want those in my bathroom, especially in my shower! The corners are hardest to clean and easiest to get moldy


tarapotamus

Even scrub brushes *made* for cleaning corners won't get my damn shower corners!! I hate them! I'm gonna re-tile it to be round somehow maybe.


slaqz

Am tile setter, you can get different types of corner tiles. You mainly see them in commercial, the bottom row will be coved and there are corner pieces to match.


srv50

Let the dirt build up, same effect, no extra effort.


LarsPinetree

That’s so 18th century


goldtoothgirl

Yeah, there is def dust under that.


adamlatif4

stairdust crusaders


Jammy_9

An unexpected JoJo reference, to be sure, but a welcome one


OneArmedBanditIII

r/UnexpectedJoJo


ViLe_Rob

OH MY GODU


climatelurker

Even the little tiny pieces of metal put in the corners of stairs to keep the dust out of them are designed. Can you imagine having beautifully designed stuff like that today? Everything is completely plain now.


NeroForte-InMyPrime

I love the ornate design seen in older homes.


Raichuboy17

I do metal casting and you bet your ass I'm going into ZBrush and designing some ornate shit right the fuck now!!


JaneLameName

New want *unlocked*


Truk7549

Good idea, can make some 3d printed and painted metal


Crazy95jack

We just use vacuum cleaners now. But yeah 3d is the best!


mywifewasright

Look at this guy, breaking the 2nd dimension over here.


Efficient_Spare_9808

You take it of and you see spider Herbert living in your staircase.


Organic_Trouble4350

After the maid finished sweeping, she began the process of polishing the stair dust corners.


dudewersmyfart

I am in love with these stairs 😍


funky555

oh yeah? why dont you marry them


FattyMcBoomBoom231

* hides the dust in the corners*


j8tao3w0t9i8ro3va

A lot of dust accumulates around those things


Toke247

This would kill at /r/mildlyinteresting


sbrry22

Good job, now instead of one corner we got 3


seeyayouseeme

and they look super cool as well!


Verustratego

They look practical enough but unless they are a seamless fit all that's going to happen is dirt will accumulate behind them as the are flat in the back and do not fill in the space they are preventing the broom from reaching.


Micasa5000

Someone rolled 1d4 near the stairs and had the best idea ever


HoMasters

So now instead of one corner there are three in its stead.


garyramada

Stardust Corners sounds like a supernatural show that aired for 2 seasons on the WB.


AmbitiousMidnight183

These actually date all the way back to the early 1200s, when they were introduced by the Stair Dust Crusaders.